When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.

Focus means exercising the self-discipline required to keep your time, energy and attention directed towards the outcomes you have chosen whilst avoiding all distractions – good or bad.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.